FDA proposed rule would regulate brewers selling spent grain as “animal feed producers”
This FDA rule could regulate hundreds if not thousands of breweries, distilleries and ethanol plants as “animal feed producers.” While the rule does propose possibly exempting smaller companies, those with between $500,000 – $2.5 million dollars in feed sales are the suggested threshold for this regulation.
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Is there nothing the gub’mint doesn’t have to get its grubby mits onto or into? Breweries have been feeding post-mash grains to livestock for centuries, what is the FDA hoping to do by regulating this?
My question is: do they really have the resources for this? We already know that they only inspect a small percentage of imported produce that comes into the country, not nearly enough to guarantee food safety. And think of all the other things they don’t regulate that people put in their bodies that are sold at “nutrition supplement” stores. I’m sure people who actually work for the FDA would be against this, because it’s extra work they don’t have the time and money for that would take away from things that actually are important. The blowhard policy makers on the other hand…well we know they’re bored all the time…
Who stands to gain anything from this? Large agricultural feed producers?
The Monsanto’s and other major political donators that don’t want to see recycling of feedstuffs that impact profitable chemical sales? Possibly the landfill operators who will pick up this material and dispose of it?
So much for improving the environment.
Right, this is ridiculous. One of the few examples of sustainable production left is being regulated away. I guess if the farmers came and got the grain and the brewers gave it away it would be not technically be animal food sales…..